2009 July | Depression On My Mind

My triplets: Depression, Bipolar, Alcoholism

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

I hit the mental illness trifecta. I have depression, bipolar AND alcoholism. I think of them as my wiley little triplets. If one wants to take a nap, the other two won't have it. They ...

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Rant-o-Rama: Another Irresponsible Doctor

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

So, looks like we have ANOTHER doctor accused of prescribing drugs that killed a celeb. This time it's Michael Jackson's doctor. Apparently, Jackson's doctor injected propofol - a powerful anesthetic- to Jackson the night he ...

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Romanticizing my mania

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

I am blessed to have a friend with bipolar. She called me a couple of days ago after reading about how much I liked my mania. She likes her mania, too. Our manic espisodes are ...

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Psychiatry v Anti-Psychiatry

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

What is up with Dr. Thomas Szasz? I know Szasz is the name to drop when I want to rile up a debate about the state of psychiatry in America. As a proponent of the Anti-Psychiatry ...

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Mania, I love it!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I'm manic. I'm up. I'm tearing it up. I realized it yesterday while I was in a meeting with one of the paper's top editors. Ideas came flying out of my mouth. Damn good ideas, I ...

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Depression in paradise

Friday, July 17th, 2009

I walked on the beach last night with a friend. It was a stunning evening. The stars looked like holes to heaven. The warm foamy water lapped my feet. I followed the tracks of mama ...

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Grieving as preventative medicine

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

The reality of impending layoffs has set in. We are now in an agonizing game of musical chairs. We know there are not enough chairs for all of us but we do not know how ...

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Dual Diagnosis: Thank you Patrick Kennedy

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Sometimes I drink in my dreams. Almost 11 years of sobriety and I still get drunk dreams. I can't say they are nightmares because, well, if you are a recovering alcoholic these dreams are as ...

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Depression: My Teenage Wasteland

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Sometimes, when I have been feeling really good for awhile, I begin to think that maybe I have made up all this depression and bipolar stuff. Maybe I am faking it or making it a ...

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Men, depression and role models

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

God bless astronaut Buzz Aldrin. In his new memoir "Magnificent Isolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon." Aldrin - the second human to set foot on the moon - candidly lays out his battle ...

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